The Name of The Doctor- Part 2
The Tardis hits ground so hard it breaks one of the glass panes in the door, "Oops." I walked out and looked up. The sky is dark, and occasionally spotting lightning.
"You okay? You're visiting your own grave. Anyone would be scared."
"It's more than that. I'm a time traveller. I've probably time-travelled more than anyone else." The Doctor said.
Clara looked at The Doctor, puzzled. "Meaning?"
"Meaning my grave is potentially the most dangerous place in the universe. Shall we?"
"Gravestones are a big basic?"Clara asked as we walked through the graveyard.
"It's a battlefield graveyard." The Doctor said quietly. "My final battle."
"Why are some of them bigger?" Clara asked. I shook my head. It's The Doctor's grave, she should be more sensitive.
"They're soldiers. The bigger the gravestone, the higher the rank." Up ahead is the biggest of all, a familiar shape with a light on top.
"It's a hell of a monument." Clara said.
"It's the Tardis." Mum whispered.
"I can see that."
"No. When a Tardis is dying, sometimes the dimension dams start breaking down. They used to call it a size leak. All the bigger on the inside starts leaking to the outside. It grows. When I say that's the Tardis, I don't mean it looks like the Tardis, I mean it actually is the Tardis. My Tardis from the future. What else would they bury me in?" The Doctor said and walked on.
Suddenly River appeared. Clara and I looked at eachother, confused. "Clara. Amelia. Don't speak, don't say my name. He can't see or hear me. Only you can."
"Well, come on, then." The Doctor called and we reluctantly caught up.
"We're mentally linked. It's the conference call. I kept the line open." River explained.
"Stop chatting! We need to get. River." The Doctor said, stopping at a gravestone with River Song carved in it.
"That can't be right." I said.
"No, it can't." Dad agreed.
"She's not dead." Clara said.
The Doctor sighe, "Oh, she's dead, I'm afraid. She's been dead for a very long time."
River winced, "Yeah, probably should have mentioned that. Never the right time."
"But I met her." Clara said.
"Long story. But her grave can't be here."
I heard whispers behind us and turned around, seeing the Wispermen. "Doctor!" Everyone turned around.
"This man must fall as all men must. The fate of all is always dust." The Whisper Men whispered.
The Doctor and Mum point their sonic screwdriver and pen at them, but nothing happens.
"If it isn't my gravestone, then what is it?" River asked.
I repeated her question, "What do you think that gravestone really is?"
"The gravestone?" The Doctor asked.
"Maybe it's a false grave."
"Maybe it's a false grave." Clara said fast.
The Doctor frowned,"Yeah, maybe."
"Maybe it's a secret entrance to the tomb."
This time, I beat Clara to it, saying, "Maybe it's a secret entrance to the tomb!"
"Yes, of course. Makes sense. They'd never bury my wife out here." The Doctor said.
Clara froze, "Your what?"
The Doctor zaps River's headstone with the sonic screwdriver. A hole opens in the ground and they fall through.
The Doctor lights a torch.
"Where are we?" I asked.
"Catacombs." Dad answered.
"I hate catacombs. So how come I met your dead wife?" Clara asked.
"Oh well, you know how it is when you lose someone close to you. I sort of made a back-up." The Doctor said.
"I died saving him. In return, he saved me to a database in the biggest library in the universe. Left me like a book on a shelf. Didn't even say goodbye. He doesn't like endings." River explained.
I heard whispering again and turned around to see that the Whisper men had caught up with us, "Guys, come on! Run, run!"
The Doctor bursts through a steel door, "Come on, quickly, we're in." A Whisper Man grabs Mum's arm.
"Jack!" Mum cried out, trying to tug herself away.
"Susan!" Dad yelled, rushing over and he pulls her its grasp and slams the door. It's hand is trapped until it pulls it back, and the door closes properly.
"Mum, are you alright?" I asked, worried.
Mum smiles. "Yes I am. Thank you husband." Dad leans in and kisses her.
"Eww!" I cried, pretending to shield my eyes.
"Yowzah." The Doctor said, "Well, come on. We headed up the metal stairs. " Still a bit of a climb. I think I remember the way. Clara? Clara." Clara swayed a bit on her feet. "Hey, it's okay. You're fine. The dimensioning forces this deep in the Tardis, they can make you a bit giddy."
"I know, I know. How do I know? How do I know that?" Clara asked, getting scared.
"Clara, it's okay. You're fine."
"Have we, have we done this before? We have. We have done this before. Climbing through a wrecked Tardis. You said things, things I'm not supposed to remember."
"We can't do this now. The Tardis is a ruin. The telepathic circuits are awakening memories you shouldn't even have. Clara." She didn't answer, having a blank look on her face. "Clara. Clara? Clara, what's wrong?"
"What do you mean, you keep meeting me? You said I died. How could I die?"
"That is not a conversation you should even remember."
"What do you mean I died?"
"The girl who died he tried to save. She'll die again inside his grave." The Whisper Men chant.
The Doctor grabs Clara's hand and yelled, "Run. Run!"
We entered into a balcony type area, without the balcony. The shapes of mountains were behind us. Vastra, Jenny and Strax stood stiffly in front of five Whisper Men.
"The doors require a key. The key is a word." A man, Simeon, faced a huge metal door. "And the word is the Doctor's." Simion turned around. Clara went to stand beside Strax as did Mum and Dad. I stood next to Dad, but a bit closer to The Doctor.
"Here I am, late to my own funeral. Glad you could make it. Jenny." Jenny nodded, clearly meaning she was alright, which was good.
"Open the door, Doctor. Speak, and open your tomb." Simeon commanded The Doctor.
"No."
"Because you know what's in there?" Simeon asked.
"I will not open those doors."
"The key is a word lost to time. A secret hidden in the deepest shadow and know to you alone. The answer to a question."
"I will not open my tomb."
"Doctor, what is your name?" Simeon reached up and grabbed at The Doctor's face, as if inspecting it. The Doctor grabs Simeons hand and pulls it off, but only by a bit. He walks around The Doctor, toward the Whisper Men, "The Doctor's friends. Stop their hearts." Simeon commanded.
The Whisper Men hiss.
"Madam, boys, combat formation. They are unarmed." Strax said as we turned around to face the Whisper Men as the Whisper Men stretch out their hands and advance on us.
"So are we!" Jenny said, panicking.
"Do not divulge our military secrets!"
"Stop this. Leave them alone."
"Your name, Doctor. Answer me."
"Doctor?" Clara called.
Strax picks up a stick and hits a Whisper Man with it. It cuts through its body. "Do you want me to do that again?" Then the hole closes up.
"Doctor who?" Simeon growled.
The Whisper Man reaches into Strax's chest, and closes its hand around his heart. Meanwhile, I am backed up against a column, a Whisper Man advancing. I looked around for my parents and saw them in similar situations.
I felt a cold sensation as the Whisper Man's arm went through me and latched onto my right heart and squeezed. I cried out in pain, forcing my left heart to compensate for what my right heart couldn't do at the moment.
"Amelia!" Mum cried, but she herself was cornered by a Whisper Man.
"Please, stop it." The Doctor pleaded.
"Doctor who?"
"Unhand me, sir. Argh." Strax yelled.
"Leave them alone. Let them be!"
"Don't worry, sir. I think I've got him rattled."
"I'm fine- Argg!" I cried and my legs went weak.
"Doctor! Doctor!" I faintly heard Clara yell.
"Doctor who?"
"Please!" The Doctor cried. The tomb door opens. Strax and I am released. I fell to the ground, coughing as Mum and Dad ran over to me.
"Lia, are you alright?" Mum asked as they helped me up as I coughed some more.
"Yeah." I said, breathing heavily.
"The Tardis can still hear me. Lucky thing, since him indoors is being so useless." River said.
"Why did you open the door, sir? I had them on the run." Strax complained.
The Doctor looked around, confused, "I didn't do it. I didn't say my name."
"No, but I did." River responded, smirking a bit.
"Is everyone all right? Is everyone okay? Amelia? Are you okay?"
I was puzzled at The Doctor's reaction. I thought he didn't… It must be because of my parents. I gave a small smile, "I'm fine."
"That was not nice." Clara said, crossly.
"I know. I'm sorry. Now then, Doctor Simeon, or Mister G Intelligence, whatever I call you, do you know what's in there?" The Doctor asked.
"For me, peace at last. For you, pain everlasting. Won't you invite us in?" Simeon asked. The Doctor forces the doors further open and we walked inside to see the inside of the Tardis covered with vines and leaves. Where the console of the Tardis usually was, three sets of swirling energy now was. The middle was white while the one on the left was purple and the one on the right was sky blue. Vines covered the floor.
"What are those?" I asked as we cautiously moved forward.
"What were you expecting, a body? Bodies are boring. I've had loads of them. Nah, that's not what my tomb is for." The Doctor said. He then paused, "Our tombs are for."
"Our tombs?" Dad asked, staring ahead at the light.
"Mine and Amelia's." Mum whispered, staring at the three energies. Clara looked at us, wide eyed.
"What?" Dad breathed.
"It's beautiful." Jenny said, mesmerized.
"Should I destroy it?" Strax asked.
"Shut up, Strax." Vastra said.
"Doctor, explain. What is that?" Clara said.
The Doctor swallowed, "The tracks of our tears."
"Less poetry, Doctor. Just tell them." Simeon spat.
"Time travel is damage. It's like a tear in the fabric of reality. That is the scar tissue of my journey through the universe. My path through time and space from Gallifrey to Trenzalore. Susan's path from Earth to Trenzalore and Amelia's journey from Drax to Trenzalore." He zaps it with his sonic screwdriver.
"Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension? Do I have the right? Daleks, Cybermen, they're still in the nursery compared to us. There are corners of the universe that have bred the most dangerous things. You were fantastic. Absolutely fantastic. I'm the Doctor. I'm from Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous Hello, Stonehenge!"
Mum collapsed and clutched at her heart. "Susan!" Dad cried, kneeling down next to her.
"Mum!" I cried, rushing over only to collapse beside her, my head bursting with pain with that feeling of having to throw up. "Ahh!"
"Amelia!" Dad cried, torn between his wife and his daughter.
"My own personal time tunnel. All the days,"
"It was the daisiest daisy I'd ever seen."
"Even the ones that I, er, even the ones that I haven't lived yet." The Doctor collapses.
"Doctor. Doctor!" Clara runs forward.
The Doctor holds up his hand to stop her. "No, no. Which is why I, we, shouldn't be here. The paradoxes. It's very bad."
Simeon steps forward.
"No. No. No. What are you doing? Somebody stop him!" The Doctor yelled.
"The Doctor's life is a open wound. And an open wound can be entered." Simeon said, staring at the energy.
The Doctor tried to stand but fell back to the ground, "No, it would destroy you."
"Not at all. It will kill me. It will destroy you. I can rewrite your every living moment. I can turn every one of you victories into defeats. Poison every friendship. Deliver pain to your every breath."
"It will burn you up. Once you go through, you can't come back. You will be scattered along my timeline like confetti."
"It matters not, Doctor. You thwarted me at every turn. Now you will give me peace, as I take my revenge on every second of your life. Goodbye. Goodbye, Doctor." Simeon backs into the time stream, and the Whisper Men vanish. There is a big flash. The Doctor curls up into himself in agony. Mum and I also cried out.
"What's wrong with him? What's happening?" Clara asked.
"He's being rewritten. Simeon is attacking his entire timeline. He's dying all at once. The Dalek Asylum. Androzani."
"What did you say? Did you say the Dalek Asylum?"
"Now he's dying in London, with us."
"It is done." I heard Simeons voice echo and I saw the The time stream turns red.
"Oh, dear Goddess." Vastra gasped.
"What's wrong?" Dad asked.
"A universe without the Doctor. There will be consequences. Jenny, with me." They leave.
"The Dalek Asylum. You said it was me that saved you. How? Victorian London. How, how could I have been in Victorian London?" Clara asked, in total panic mode.
"No. Please, stop. My life, my whole life is burning." The Doctor said.
Suddenly nothing hurt anymore. I felt… in peace. "Mum? Dad?" I asked and then everything went white.